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“If the objective is to increase the capacity of workers and their families to weather economic woes, an increase of P22 a day at this point is simply too little, too late,” Akbayan Representative Walden Bello said on Tuesday morning following the announcement of a P22-increase in minimum wage earners’ cost of living allowance (COLA)....

San Diego hosted no fewer than three rallies on Sunday, May 1 — one between the Centro Cultural de la Raza and World Beat Center in Balboa Park, followed by a march to the Federal Building downtown where the second rally was held, and a third at the San Diego Community Concourse that united the participants with another set of marchers, who had assembled earlier in the morning in Chicano Park, also for a walk downtown. The rally speakers focused on a wide variety of progressive issues — worke...

Just a decade ago, Barcelona was one of just a couple cities in the world known for maintaining a riotous tradition of combative May Day protests, with a strong anarchist presence. In more recent years, however, the First of May has tended to be as peaceful as Christmas. The events organized by the anarchosyndicalists of the CNT and CGT were more like parades, while the other anarchists were largely trapped in a squatting movement that was losing its ability to take the streets. Already by 20...

Social justice, solidarity and sharing open doors while market fundamentalism leads to exploding inequality and generalized insecurity....

The Socialist Party USA National Convention is scheduled during the weekend of October 14-16, 2011; Los Angeles will be the host city. For more information, contact: Socialist Party of California, Convention Committee, P.O. Box 661483, Los Angeles, CA 90066. E-mail address: socialistpartyusala@gmail.com...

We live on credit, shift costs and risks into the future and make possible a prosperity with the help of a cheap money policy that is paid for by others. An interest-free money system would be a counter model to the growth pressure inherent in the present system. The instability of the financial markets and the economy is the result of structures that were systemically created in the last two decades....

Production cannot increase forever. For the developed economies of the western world, prosperity without growth is a necessity and not a utopian dream any more. It is purely and simply a delusion to believe the tendency of capitalism to efficiency will stabilize the climate or protect us from scarcity of resources. See the links to five free Internet books....

According to Utah Phillips, joining a Labor Union IS the most effective form of activism. Read this article to find out why and why the left must shift it's overall strategy to organizing. By John Parulis, CWA Freelancers Guild. Local 39521...

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD An Agency of the United States Government The National Labor Relations Board has found that we violated Federal labor law and has ordered us to post and obey this notice....

On the morning of August 1, 2007, 14 of the drivers commenced an economic strike and began picketing outside the Respondent’s facility.5 When Transportation Manager Dan Robbert arrived at work and encountered the picket line, he told Shop Steward Ron Smeltzer, “I just want you to be perfectly clear if you don’t come back to work now you don’t have jobs to come back to.”...